base only, max.: H. 5.4 × W. 10 × D. 6.6 cm (2 1/8 × 3 15/16 × 2 5/8 in.) vessel and stand, max.: H. 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Dongkhe ware: off-white stoneware with white slip and ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration
18th-19th centuryChineseCast bronze with pale green patina
13th century BCEChineseCeramic
ChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised, carved, and roulette-wheel impressed decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with gray-green patina; with an inscription cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior
14th-11th century BCEChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with impressed decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChineseDark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters
19th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed stoneware, "guan" type: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
18th centuryChineseProto-porcelain ware: stoneware with natural ash glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChinese